Google – AFP, 1 March 2014
Picture
taken on November 30, 2006 shows Jordan midfielder Abeer Al Nahar
at a training
session at the Al-Arabi Football Stadium in Doha (AFP/File,
Toshifumi Kitamura)
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Zurich —
Football's world governing body FIFA on Saturday officially authorised the
wearing of head covers for religious purposes during matches.
"It
was decided that female players can cover their heads to play," said FIFA
secretary general Jerome Valcke at a meeting of the International Football
Association Board (IFAB), the sport's lawmakers, in Zurich.
That will
allow female Muslim players who wear a veil in everyday life to cover their
heads during matches, and Valcke added that male players will also be
authorised to do so following a request from the Sikh community of Canada.
"It
was decided that male players can play with head cover too," he said,
although they will not be the same as those worn day-to-day.
"It
will be a basic head cover and the colour should be the same as the team
jersey."
The wearing
of head covers had been banned until 2012, with FIFA saying that they posed too
great a risk of injury to the head or neck.
However,
the IFAB then allowed for them to be tested out over a two-year period
following a request from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), a trial which
proved to be successful.
Iranian women footballers run with the national flag at a stadium in Amman on
June 3, 2011 moments after they were barred from playing an Olympic qualifier
against Jordan for wearing the traditional Islamic headscarf (AFP)
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Fifa allows Iran girl footballers to cover their heads
Iran agreed the girls could swap their headscarves for caps |
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